Author Archives: Menagerie Press

Daring Adventures (Free Version) for iOS and Android

Come gather your heroes, gain elemental powers, and fight the Chaos Beasts in this free fantasy RPG adventure game. Daring Adventure is a fantasy card game. You will assemble your party of heroes to fight monsters inhabiting various locations. Along … Continue reading

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Compendium Imaginarium

This fully-illustrated bestiary includes twenty-five creatures from the depths of the Imaginarium – draconic Deepriver Wyrms mingle with malicious Fleshrenders and the triple- headed Ayaqua. Includes magical constructs such as the Bladed Golem and Silver Golem, and otherworldly creatures like … Continue reading

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New TIME WARP card game decks available as POD from PrinterStudio

TIME WARP: Mad Science, TIME WARP: Ragnarok, and TIME WARP: Wild West Now available on POD from PrinterStudio! PrinterStudio Shop for TIME WARP card game! Come show some love and get a new card game to play. Instructions included in the … Continue reading

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New Developments: Google Play (Android) games now available

Vellum Information is pleased to announce the release of several new Android apps, and some partner efforts that are sponsored on Newgrounds.com: HeroicMatch https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.velluminformation.heromatch&hl=en The classic Concentration card game meets Android and high fantasy – images of goblins, elves, swords, … Continue reading

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Hospital and Outpatient Quality Metrics: An Annotated Bibliography

Hospital and Outpatient Quality Metrics Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Specifications Manual http://qualitynet.org/dcs/ContentServer?c=Page&pagename=QnetPublic%2FPage%2FQnetTier2&cid=1196289981244 Description: The Hospitals Outpatient Quality Reporting Specifications Manual was developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to provide a uniform set of quality measures to be implemented … Continue reading

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Healthcare Quality Metrics: An Annotated Bibliography

Healthcare Quality Metrics 1.     Health Resource and Service Administration http://www.hrsa.gov/healthit/toolbox/RuralHealthITtoolbox/PatientQuality/metrics.html Description: A quality metric allows a user to quantify the quality of a selected aspect of care.  The Health Resource and Service Administration website explains the different types of quality metrics … Continue reading

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ICD-9 Conversion to ICD-10 Resources: An Annotated Bibliography

ICD-9 Conversion to ICD-10 Resources 1.     Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/index.html?redirect=/icd10 Description: ICD-9 code sets used in reporting medical diagnoses and impatient procedures are being replaced by ICD-10 code sets on October 1, 2014.  This transition is required … Continue reading

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Big Data Analysis Tools/Resources: An Annotated Bibliography

Big Data Analysis Tools/Resources 1.     Chris Stucchio’s blog http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html This blog makes this list primarily for one article: “Don’t use Hadoop – your data isn’t that big”, which provides a guide for deciding whether your data really qualifies as big … Continue reading

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SQL Programming Resources: An Annotated Bibliography

SQL Programming Resources 1.     Coursera/Stanford “Introduction to Databases” https://www.coursera.org/course/db One of the biggest names in Massive Open Online Courseware (MOOC), Coursera has a huge database of university level courses. This offering from Stanford University has 9 units devoted to SQL … Continue reading

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‘Big Data’ Public Databases: An Annotated Bibliography

Big Public Databases 1.     Kin Lane’s Federal Dataset Tool http://federal-agency-dataset-adoption.publicprivatesector.org/index.html Many of the following listings refer to US Federal Government datasets. These are some of the biggest public datasets available. Unfortunately, much of this data is messy, published without much … Continue reading

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